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Second gay rights group to march in Boston St. Patrick’s parade
This is the first year that parade organizers have allowed groups representing the gay community to participate in the parade, which draws as many as a million spectators to South Boston.
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UMass guard Derrick Gordon: Coming out made me a better basketball player
Gordon became the first openly gay player in men’s Division I college basketball when he came out last year, and says it changed his life for the better in every way.
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EEOC ruling: Walmart discriminated against lesbian employee
A federal agency says Walmart discriminated against a lesbian employee who sought health coverage for her ailing wife and has ordered “a just resolution” for violating her civil rights.
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Lesbian couple gunned down by obsessed U.S. Coast Guard co-worker
A heavily armed Coast Guard member, allegedly obsessed for years with an attractive former co-worker, a lesbian who married another female co-worker, is charged with fatally wounding the woman and seriously injuring her spouse.
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USA’s first openly gay Attorney General eager to step into new role
Even before taking office, Maura Healey made news by becoming the nation’s first openly gay elected attorney general, and says she’s glad the barrier has been broken.
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Appeals court overturns ruling granting sex-change for convicted murderer
Michelle Kosilek has waged a protracted legal battle for the surgery she says is needed to relieve the mental anguish caused by gender-identity disorder.
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First time in history: Gay veterans to march in Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade
The South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, which has long resisted the inclusion of gay groups, voted Monday night to allow the group OutVets to march in the 2015 parade.
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Gay, transgender veterans march for the first time in Boston Veterans Day parade
BOSTON — Massachusetts marked Veterans Day on Tuesday with commemorations around the state, including a parade in Boston in which gay and transgender veterans were allowed to march for the first time. OutVets, a recently-formed group representing LGBT military veterans, had about 20 marchers in Tuesday afternoon’s parade …
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Gay veterans group to march in Boston parade for the first time
Boston’s annual Veterans Day parade will include a group representing LGBT military veterans for the first time. OutVets, a recently-formed nonpartisan and nonpolitical group based in Boston, expects between 10 to 30 people to march Tuesday in matching polo shirts and baseball caps. The downtown parade covers Boston Common and…
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Maura Healey elected nation’s first openly gay Attorney General
BOSTON — Democrat Maura Healey has won the race for Massachusetts attorney general, topping Republican John Miller to become the nation’s first openly gay candidate elected to the top law enforcement job.